• Tiffany Brown, Head of the 1-Woman Company Which Delivered Only 50,000 of 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Blames FEMA, The Root
• The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect and that’s why they’re great, Washington Post

• Quincy Jones Has a Story About That, GQ
• 'Pillar of the community' deported from US after 39 years to a land he barely knows, CNN
• L.L. Bean Scraps Legendary Lifetime Return Policy, NPR
• MOM TALK: I LOVE MY KIDS, BUT SOMETIMES I DON’T LIKE THEM, Mother Mag
• Traditional Chinese Pastry Isn’t Baked–So What’s Up With Chinatown “Bakeries”?, Four Pounds Flour
  Fascinating
• New York City Has Passed Its First-Ever Urban Agriculture Policy Bill, Edible Manhattan

• The Pursuit of Emptiness by John Perry Barlow
• John Perry Barlow’s “Principles of Adult Behavior”, Carsten Knoch
• Buy a co-op at a discount: All about HDFCs and how to snag one, Brick Underground
• In Conversation: Quincy Jones, Vulture

• Aiming for Redemption, Justin Timberlake Flirts With Irrelevance, Village Voice
• Bowery Tenants Face Six More Weeks Homeless, Village Voice
• Bathrooms: Pretty in Pink, Again, NY Times

• No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It, NYTimes
• Medical marijuana bill passes Virginia Senate 40-0, News Leader
• Race, not abortion, was the founding issue of the religious right, Boston Globe
• Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map, AP
• North Carolina’s Legislative Coup Shows What Voter Suppression Will Look Like Under Trump, The Nation
• Colleen Coyle Mathis, Ousted Arizona Redistricting Chair, Out Of Office Pending Nov. 17 Hearing, HuffPo
• How Ethiopia’s New Railway Could Launch an Inclusive Urban Boom, Next City
• Why America Is Stuck With Only Two Parties, New Republic

• The Women Behind White Power, NY Times
• Nigel the Bird Found Dead Next to the Concrete Partner He Tried to Woo For Years, Gizmodo
• IGNORING THE SHELF WORK -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 9, the kavanaugh report
• The past lives of a modest 1809 house in Tribeca, ephemeral new york
• JEN’S RICHMOND RENO: NEW (OLD) FIREPLACE MANTELS!, Jen Chu Design
• America’s Food Stamps Program Proves Trickle-Up Economics Works, HuffPost
• The Racial Equity Race to the Top on Cannabis in California, City Lab
• The Black Panther Party’s History of Urban Street Art, City Lab
• HUD May Push New Work Requirements for Public Housing Residents, City Lab
• Yes, the MLK Estate Did Approve That Trash Dodge Super Bowl Ad, The Root
  Glad to know that we weren't the only ones with this opinion
• America Will Not Stop Until Martin Luther King Jr. Is Completely Rebranded as a Slice of Avocado Toast , The Root
• FBI Prosecutes Its First ‘Black Identity Extremist’ and Hardly Anyone Is Talking About It, Atlanta Black Star
• [REPORT] Stress from Racism Linked to Maternal and Infant Mortality for Black Women, Colorlines
• Exploring African Americans’ High Maternal and Infant Death Rates, Center for American Progress

• “If Things Were Going Well, We Wouldn’t Be Here”: Artists Protest NYC’s Loft Board, hyperallergic
• Man Ray in LA: what happened when the pioneering artist hit Hollywood, The Guardian
• HAS INSTAGRAM COME FULL CIRCLE?, A beautiful mess
• How to Watch TV With Your Kids, The Cut
• This Is the Craziest Story About a Bachelor Contestant Ever, The Cut
• This Is the Most Boring Season of The Bachelor Ever, Vulture
• What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery, The Atlantic
• Lid Chic, Print Mag
• Lella and Massimo Vignelli’s Home Seeks a Like-Minded Buyer, NY Times
• Can We Redesign the Way We Talk About Abortion? Meet the Women Behind 5 Very Powerful Design-led Projects, AIGA Eye on Design

• Dear Zuck (and Facebook Product Teams), Medium
• How to Design Social Systems (Without Causing Depression and War), Medium
• The Grammys Once Again Took the Sharpest Voices for Granted, The Slate
• Bookstore employee writes this on Facebook after “little old lady” shocks everyone at the register, Daily Headline
• Lower Manhattan’s celebrated 140 Broadway may get unwelcome ornament, Curbed

• 'Ideas are important, but execution wins out': Beyond the Brief featuring Eric Mayville, Wondersauce, The Drum
• Feminist bookstore Cafe con Libros sets up shop in Crown Heights, AM NY
• These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books, Atlas Obscura
• The Grim History Hidden Under a Baltimore Parking Lot, Atlas Obscura
• The Eastern Cougar Is Officially Extinct, Atlas Obscura
• The Staggering Scope of the Plastic Threat to Coral Reefs, Atlas Obscura
• How America Fell in Love With Vodka, Atlas Obscura
• Around the World in 14,000 ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs, Atlas Obscura
• How Photographers Captured the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII, Atlas Obscura

• How Religious Health Care Hurts Women of Color, New Republic
• The Fascinating and Tragic History of The Wythe Hotel, Greenpointers
• When White Parents Won't Integrate Public Schools, City Lab
• The Story Behind the Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar, Topic

• Moving Americans Out of Poverty Will Take More Than Money, CityLab
• From Yosemite to Bears Ears, Erasing Native Americans From U.S. National Parks, Collectors Weekly

• An Industrial Loft for Museum Directors & Avid Collectors, Design Sponge
• How the Kardashians Have Forced Us to 'Keep Up' for 10 Goddamn Years, Broadly
• Britney Spears' Las Vegas residency was the best thing she ever did for her career, Independent
• Subway Renovation Delay Isn’t Just a Bill vs. Andrew Thing, Village Voice
• LaToya Ruby Frazier Explores Community, Corrosion, and the Flint Water Crisis, Village Voice
• The Purge of New York, Jacobian
• What “demographic decline”? American women are having plenty of babies, Salon
• Walmart and Now Starbucks: Why More Big Companies Are Offering Paid Family Leave, NY Times
• Cecile Richards on Her Life After Planned Parenthood, NY Times
• Why Are Women Still Choosing the Lowest-Paying Jobs?, The Atlantic
• Degrading and Demeaning, Slate
• These kids started a book club for minority boys. It’s the most popular club in school., WashingtonPost
• Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read, The Atlantic
• Grandude? G-dawg? Nonny? Boomers Name Themselves, NY Times
• Exclusive: ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US, The Verge

• How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails, The Atlantic
  So guilty of this! I get a lot of anxiety when I forget to respond then put it off, making for even more anxiety!
• Materials, man, Austin Kloen
• Shaken by Recent Decisions, Preservationists Say Landmarks Commission Is Not Doing Its Job, Brownstoner
• Is it safe to walk over New York’s sidewalk cellar doors?, Curbed
• In Conversation: Erykah Badu, Vulture
• Erykah Badu in controversial interview says: ‘I saw something good in Hitler’, Independent
• U.S. Schools Have Already Faced 11 Shooting Incidents This Year, HuffPost

• The Oldest Object in England’s Crown Jewels Is a Spoon, Atlas Obscura

• #InternationalMidwivesDay, gemstone gypsy
• Photos of San Francisco’s first mustachioed cycling fanatics put today’s bike hipsters to shame, Timeline
• Comic Series Shares ‘Scary’ Postpartum Thoughts Moms Have But Don’t Share, Scary Mommy
• Sorry, Virginia: Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Doesn’t Want to Hear You Wax Poetic About Confederate ‘Heroes’, The Root
• 5: THE INVESTIGATOR, Enneagram Type Five
  Test
• The Fungus That Could Patch Up Cracking Buildings, Atlas Obscura
• Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is More Relevant Than Ever, Atlas Obscura
• An Anthropologist Explains Why We Want to Eat Tide Pods, Atlas Obscura
• Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate, Atlas Obscura
• The Mystery of the Lost Roman Herb, BBC

• BABY PROOFING IN A MONTESSORI HOME, the kavanaugh report
• Monday used to be laundry day in New York City, ephemeral new york
• The Psychology of Boston's Snow Parking Wars, City Lab
• Could Congestion Pricing Finally Work for New York City?, city Lab
• Amazon Whittles Down List of HQ2 Contenders to 20 Finalists, City Lab
• The MLK Murals of America, City Lab
• How Gerrymandering Silenced North Carolina's Cities, City Lab
• Are Blacks Names ‘Weird,’ or Are You Just Racist?, Daily Beast
• We Don’t Only Need More Diverse Books. We Need More Diverse Books Like The Snowy Day., Slate

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Breaks Out Into Civil War Over Appalling MLK Day Editorial, Splinter
• Trump’s Plan to End ‘Chain Migration’ Is Neither Populist Nor Nationalist, NY Mag
• The Curious History of ‘Chain Migration’, WSJ
• What “chain migration” really means — and why Donald Trump hates it so much, Vox
• End Chain Migration, Numbers USA
• Why is chain migration so controversial?, The Economist
• Fox and Breitbart are helping Trump mainstream the term “chain migration,” a misleading nativist buzzword, Media Matters
• Explaining 'Chain Migration', NPR
• What is chain migration and why does Trump want it ended?, Fox News
• Trump’s “chain migration” obsession: The Nazis thought of it first, Salon
• It’s Time To End Chain Migration, White House
• The Fiscal and Economic Impact of Immigration on the United States, Center for Immigration Studies
• Exploring Our New Lows, “High Maintenance” Reaches New Heights, Village Voice

• Ashleigh Banfield Fired Back After The Writer Of That Aziz Ansari Piece Insulted Her In An Email, Buzzfeed
• Björk on creativity as an ongoing experiment, The Creative Independent
• The Black Woman’s Tale: Why Margaret Atwood’s Espousal of White Feminist Beliefs Shouldn’t Surprise You, the Root
• Am I a bad feminist?, The Globe and Mail
• ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A White Feminist’s Dystopia, The Establishment
• Samantha Bee on #MeToo Backlash and Aziz Ansari: ‘It Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Life to Be Worth Speaking Out About’, Vulture

• I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life, babe
• Babe, What Are You Doing?, Jezebel
• PLAY KITCHENS AND MONTESSORI HOMES, the kavanaugh report
• What Serena Williams's Birth Story Says About Racism in Health Care, Boadly

• African nations issue extraordinary response to Trump’s racist comments, demand apology, Think Progress
• America's Schools Are 'Profoundly Unequal,' Says U.S. Civil Rights Commission, NPR
• When the easiest way to feel safe is offering help to others, PBS Newshour
• Stop 'Pandering To Ignorance And Fear': Consumers Speak Out Against Triscuit's Non-GMO Label, Forbes
• FBI–King suicide letter
• Mike Pence Turned Beet Red During MLK Service as Black Preacher Went Off About ‘Shithole’ Remarks, The Root
• Reason as racism: An immigration debate gets derailed, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• On Aziz Ansari And "Bad Sex", Bust
  "I think the opposite of brave isn't scared. The opposite of brave is quiet."
• ‘I regret having children’, Macleans